I’m just reading the text. Matthew 24:39 clearly says that the unbelievers were taken away by the flood, unless your are trying to say that Noah didn’t know about the flood. You are trying to say that the believers are taken in verses 40 and 41. That is what I was saying about reversing the analogy. The text says “like” the days not “unlike.”
You need to look at the whole context. Noah and his family being lifted in the ark out of the deadly flood on the earth and now, God’s people being lifted up to meet Jesus in the air from the deadly tribulation on the earth. All because of God’s love and mercy towards his own (1 Thess. 4:16-18).
Don’t split hairs and strive over words (which the flesh loves to do) like the word “take”, missing the overall context. Unbelievers were taken and destroyed by the flood. Noah and his family were taken in the ark above the flood.
Don’t be like those described in 1 Timothy, “doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings” (1 Tim 6:4).
Walk after the life and peace of the Spirit not after the strivings of the flesh which is death (Rom. 8:6-8).